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The Khao Que-Tam Tao gabbro-granite massif, Northern Vietnam: A petrological indicator of the Emeishan plume

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New data obtained on the Khao Que-Tam Tao gabbro-granite pluton (Northern Vietnam) are discussed. It was established that this pluton was formed at the Permian-Triassic boundary (250.5 ± 3.2 Ma, 40Ar/39Ar isotopic age). Morphologically, it represents a hypabyssal fracture intrusion. The first stage was marked by the intrusion of the picrobasaltic melt, the differentiation of which resulted in the formation of the layered peridotite-gabbro series and the quartz-bearing monzodiorites and granophyres in its endocontact at the final stage. At the second stage, the Khao Que peridotite-gabbro massif was broken in its central part by a fault, along which the Tam Tao granodiorite-granite massif was localized. Numerical simulation using the COMAGMAT program for the basic system and geochemical estimates for the granite system allow the statement that the mafic and granitic melts evolved independently, and their final products were quartz-bearing monzodiorite and granophyre, on the one hand, and aplites and pegmatites, on the other hand. The compositional correlation of the Permian-Triassic magmatic associations in Northern Vietnam (the Nui Chua gabbro pluton and the Khao Que-Tam Tao gabbro-granite and Pia Bioc granite plutons) and in Southeast China (flood basalts) allows these complexes to be regarded as a part of a single large igneous province produced by the Emeishan plume activity.

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    A. G. Vladimirov, P. A. Balykin, N. N. Kruk, A. V. Travin, I. Yu. Annikova, M. L. Kuybida, E. V. Borodina & I. V. Karmysheva

  2. Geological Institute, Vietnamese Academy of Sciences and Technologies, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Phan Luu Anh, Ngo Thi Phuong, Tran Trong Hoa & Bui An Nien

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Original Russian Text © A.G. Vladimirov, P.A. Balykin, Phan Luu Anh, N.N. Kruk, Ngo Thi Phuong, A.V. Travin, Tran Trong Hoa, I.Yu. Annikova, M.L. Kuybida, E.V. Borodina, I.V. Karmysheva, Bui An Nien, 2012, published in Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 69–92.

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Vladimirov, A.G., Balykin, P.A., Anh, P.L. et al. The Khao Que-Tam Tao gabbro-granite massif, Northern Vietnam: A petrological indicator of the Emeishan plume. Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 6, 395–411 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714012050065

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